The odd way in which the author’s grandmother behaved just before she died.
The grandmother started living alone in her room without talking to her family members. She was suffering from fever but she asked to leave her alone as she thinks it is her end now and told that she has omitted to pray in her last phase so she was not going to waste her time talking to them. She lay on bed, started praying in inaudible voice and telling her beads.
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